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1 hurt in Westwood home invasion

Police were searching for two men Thursday night in connection with two home invasions, one of which ended in a shooting.

Cincinnati police said the first break-in happened at the Sunset Garden Apartments in Price Hill on Thursday night.

Investigators said at about 9:30 p.m., homeowner Abdul Sy answered the door to two men calling him by name. Sy told police one of the men had a gun, while the other was yelling, "Shoot him. Shoot him."

Police said Sy grabbed the gun away from the intruders, which resulted in a scuffle, and eventually, the men got the gun back and Sy was pistol-whipped and punched in the face. Police said the two men fled with $700.

An hour earlier, a group of two adults and three children were having a barbecue at a home in the 3200 block of Lakeview Avenue when police said the same two men broke into the home.

Police said the two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, were leaving with a laptop when Brittany Short, 26, put up a fight over a computer and was shot in front of the children.

"The information that we've obtained from some of the witnesses indicate that the two adults in the apartment were actually taken upstairs and the children were forced to lie down in the living room," said Lt. Chris Ruehmer, of the Cincinnati Police Department.

Police said Shorts' injuries aren’t believed to be life-threatening.

Officials said the assailants fled from the home in a maroon Pontiac heading north on Lakeview Avenue.

Police said the assailants were described as two black men wearing skullcaps, jeans and Timberland boots. Investigators said one of the men is light-skinned and wearing a green hooded sweater, while the other is heavy-set and wearing a black or blue hooded sweater.

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